Ashmolean Museum

From child marriages to a royal murder in Calais….

Sep 8, 2023

anniversaries, buildings, law, religion, sources

Anne Mowbray, Ashmolean Museum, child marriage, Eleanor de Bohun, Henry IV, Henry V, Humphrey de Bohun, Illustrations of Ancient State and Chivalry Preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, murder, Oxford, Philippa de Coucy, Richard II, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford, St. Stephen’s Westminster, Thomas of woodstock, William Henry Black

While seeking information that might help with the child marriage of Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford and Philippa de Coucy, granddaughter of King Edward III, I came upon this link which is from Illustrations of Ancient State and Chivalry, From Manuscripts Preserved In The Ashmolean Museum, edited by William Henry Black and…
MEDIEVAL POSY RINGS – GIVEN WITH LOVE…

May 10, 2023

anniversaries, archaeology, art, buildings, The play’s the thing

Ashmolean Museum, British Museum, Catherine de Roet, Dorset, engraving, gifts, gold, Hamlet, Joan Hanham, John of Gaunt, metal detecting, Museum of London, posy rings, romance, Thomas Brook, Victoria and Albert Museum

Reblogged from MEDIEVAL POSY RINGS – GIVEN WITH LOVE… ‘Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?’ ‘Tis brief, my lord’ * This beauty is reputed to have been given by John of Gaunt (1340-1399) to his mistress and subsequent third wife, Katheryn Swinford (1350-1403). The inscription reads ‘alas for fayte’ which was probably…
Further travels in enemy territory: Oxford

Oct 16, 2020

anniversaries, buildings, culture, humour, religion, television reviews

Ashmolean Museum, Beccles, Bocarno Prison, C.S. Lewis, Cambridge University, Christ Church Cathedral Oxford., Crick, DNA, Dorothy Hodgkin, eagle and child, Endeavour Morse, football, Four Candles, Headington, heresy, Hugh Latimer, J.R.R. Tolkein, Last Bus to Woodstock, Manor Ground, Martyrs’ Memorial, Matilda, Nicholas Ridley, Oxford, Oxford High School for Boys, Oxford Prison. Oxford Castle, Oxford United, Pitt-Rivers Museum, Ronnie Barker, St. Michael at the north gate, The Wench is Dead, Thomas Cranmer, Watson

Oxford (Oxenford) is obviously a compact and historic city although visiting specific buildings at short notice is difficult at present. Christ Church Cathedral (England’s smallest for the largest diocese) and the Ashmolean Museum (currently organising a Rembrandt exhibition) were unbookable whilst the Pitt-Rivers Museum didn’t open until September. I went for the Bank Holiday weekend…
The Thame Hoard….

Oct 22, 2018

art, buildings

Ashmolean Museum, Edward III, gold, Henry V, jewellery, Oxford, Reliquary ring, Richard II, Robert King, silver groats, Thame Abbey, Thame Hoard

I’m surprised that I have never heard of this hoard before. It was found in 1940, so has been in the public eye for longer than I’ve graced this earth.
Richard, George, Edward and HENRY at the same wedding….?

May 30, 2016

art, genealogy

Anne Mowbray, Ashmolean Museum, attainder, Earldom of Richmond, Edmund “Tudor”, Edward IV, exiles, George Duke of Clarence, Henry VII, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, royal marriages

Here is a strange identification. While seeking more information about the duel that had supposedly taken place at Richard and Anne’s wedding, I happened upon a source that made it clear the Richard and Anne in question were the little Duke of York, son of Edward IV, and Anne Mowbray, and the wedding date was…

Ashmolean Museum

From child marriages to a royal murder in Calais….

MEDIEVAL POSY RINGS – GIVEN WITH LOVE…

Further travels in enemy territory: Oxford

The Thame Hoard….

Richard, George, Edward and HENRY at the same wedding….?